Hours after the victory in the House of Representatives due to the presidential veto of the pension reform, the ruling party managed to suspend, once again, the debate on the controversial decree that authorized a substantial increase in the reserved expenses of the State intelligence agency. The measure received a first setback at the end of August in the Lower House.
The treatment of the DNU was removed from the agenda of this Thursday’s session, after a meeting of Parliamentary Work which took place in the last few hours. The Government faces a scenario of assured defeat if the debate were to reach the Senate This Thursday, since the opposition has the necessary votes to deliver the final blow.
The Government postponed the debate on the SIDE DNU and requested a “secret session”
The suspension of the treatment is intended to gain time to turn the tables and keep the decree alive. In parallel, the Executive power proposed to the senators to coordinate a “secret session” where officials would attend to explain the scope of the decree. The Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich, the Minister of Defense, Luis Petri, and the head of SIDE, Sergio Dario Neiffert, They would go to the meeting to justify the increase in the budget reserved for intelligence.
The Casa Rosada sent a note to the head of the Senate, Victoria Villarruel, to formally request that “a Special Secret Session be called in accordance with the terms of Article 18 of the Regulations of the H. Senate of the Nation” with the purpose that Bullrich, Petri and Neiffert “can provide explanations” about the decree 656/24.
In the letter, they point out that due to “the nature of the destination of the assigned funds and that their publicity would affect the normal development of the tasks of the bodies that make up the aforementioned system, it is appropriate to establish their reserved character“. And they assure that The request “is based on the confidential nature of the information that officials must provide.”
From the block of Union for the Homeland They reject the Executive’s proposal to carry out the “secret session” and they announced that they will insist on the treatment of the DNU in the session this Thursday, where the educational financing and single paper ballot projects will also be discussed. “If seven radicals join us, it’s time,” they say.
Without debate on the DNU, the Senate will discuss educational financing and the single paper ballot
During the meeting of Parliamentary Work, After hours of discussion, the Senate bloc leaders and the vice president Victoria Villarruel They finally reached an agreement that The session this Thursday will be heldwhich will discuss educational financing and the modification of the ballot project, which have been partially approved by the House of Representatives. The debate will begin at 2 p.m.
The parliamentary discussion will take place in the midst of an important victory for the Government after the harvest of votes achieved in Deputies to hold the veto of the Retirement Mobility Lawwith which he showed the power of his letters to the Legislative Power, given that He managed to ostracize a project that had obtained two-thirds of the support for its approval.
The opposition’s proposal to increase education funding could also suffer the same fate, given that, in the event of a sanction, it could be vetoed. The Chief of Staff, Guillermo Francosconfirmed that, in case the Upper House give the remaining half sanction to the initiative, The Executive Branch will veto itin the same way that it did with the pension reform“Another veto is coming,” he said and reaffirmed: “We are not going to approve a law that implies a fiscal deficit.”
The reform aims to Increase in the university budget to ensure the protection and sustainability of funding for all universities that they are public management in the country. It also provides that the teachers’ salaries increase and that they are not subject to inflation and the data shared monthly by the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INDEC).
Source: Ambito
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